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Tanya Olson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where she teaches courses at the intersection of sexuality, Irish literature, and composition pedagogy. Her research also extends to literary explorations of American identity, Transcendentalism, and gender/sexuality studies.
Olson earned a Ph.D. in 20th-Century British Literature from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and an M.A. in Anglo-Irish Literature from University College, Dublin. Her scholarly work is complemented by a distinguished literary career, including recognition as a 2011 Lambda Emerging Writers Fellow and a 2010 Discovery/Boston Review Prize recipient.
Her poetry collections Boyishly (2013) and Stay (2019) interrogate themes of identity, displacement, and the American psyche through experimental forms and dialectic grammar. The 2014 American Book Award-winning Boyishly reimagines archetypal figures and myths, while Stay (2019) examines societal fragmentation through associative poetic streams.
Honors include:
- 2014 American Book Award
- 2010 Discovery/Boston Review Prize
- 2011 Lambda Emerging Writers Fellowship
- Inclusion in Best American Poems 2015
Olson’s work has been featured in publications such as *Beloit Poetry Journal*, *The Awl*, and *Forklift, Ohio*. She is deeply committed to poetry’s role in public discourse, advocating for poets to engage with societal issues like drone warfare and inequality.
